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Fırst of all thanks for backing this awesome game. I dont even know what to say about your first paragraph so gonna skip that. You dont have to sneak into every battle, but if you dont you are gonna have a harder time than if you did. I mean... what did you expect? AFAIK there is no way to hold aggro in most DnD games if not all. You need to position your tanky character in front and close to enemies so they attack him first, keep your squish guys at back or if they are melee let your tank and enemy npcs get into position first. Which also solves your "my rogue is dying" problem. THEY SHOULDNT GET HIT. Of couse they die, thats why they are squish, thats why you have meat shields and dps characters. Again thats basic DnD rule. If your character does not have neccessary defences, he is going to have a bad time. I mean you dont jump in front of an Orc Barbarian with your sneaky rogue, right? Come to think of it, did you actually play DnD at all? (Not 4E bull****) Because you compare it to DnD later on your post. The game tells you right at the start that pausing in this game is REALLY important. If you dont like that, you can play in easy, or you can play with less than 6 characters in your party. You can do pretty well with 4 people too. I know some crazy people will eventually solo it on hard, not me tho. I cant say anything about buffs, since i dont like using spell slots for 150 seconds of buffs so i never actually tried them. But, i can say that debuffs are pretty amazing, using my charm and making them fight each other, or paralyzing the boss while killing the thrash is pretty damn good. So yeah, it seems like you dont enjoy this system and ı dont think they promised something different. Too bad you dont like it, but well they cant please everyone. I dont know why i spent so much time answering this post instead of playing the game. My fanboism got better of me i guess ( Oh wait, fans cant criticise right? Dont mind me than.